Preventing careless data breaches – who’s responsible?

Introduction If you didn't know much about Cloud storage, then the media storm surrounding the launch of Google Drive would suggest you are now well aware of the concept. What you may not realise is that Google Drive arrives late...

"We've been tidying up a little, making our privacy policies and terms more consistent, easier to read and easier to understand. You see while privacy policies, ours included, may not be the most popular read on the Internet, we...

Google is going to spend $10 million on ads to be featured on US magazines, newspapers and in various public places like subways in order to spread awareness among people about protecting their personal information online. The...

DARPA has lost its 'fastest-ever' $300 million super-jet capable of flying at speeds of 13,000 Mph, within minutes after it was launched. The HTV-2 was launched for a hypersonic test flight from the Vandenberg air force base in...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation alongside digital human rights campaign group Access, has announced a new project promoting privacy on the Internet.The EFF's HTTPS Now project aims to help ensure that the personal information...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in partnership with digital human rights campaign group Access, has announced a new project with which it hopes to promote the cause of privacy on the Internet.The EFF's HTTPS Now project aims...

A South Korean regulator has attacked Facebook, claiming that the social network is breaching data privacy laws. The Korean Communications Commission has criticised Facebook’s general privacy policy, the company’s...

Social networking sites which track users without their knowledge, or which make it so difficult to stop them doing it that most people don't bother, have been warned to clean up their acts by the US Federal Trade Commission. In...

Google, Microsoft, eBay, telecoms companies and civil liberties groups in the US have called on the US government to update electronic privacy laws to take account of the internet and protect citizens from state snooping. The...

The European Commission is planning to beef up the Data Protection Directive, strengthening the enforcement of the EU law and including introducing new demands that technologies and processes include 'privacy by design'. The...

A list of members of the British National Party (BNP) has been published online, including thousands of names, addresses and email addresses. The party claims that the security breach was likely to be a deliberate act of...

The calls come in a Data Sharing Review produced by Commissioner Richard Thomas and Dr Mark Walport, a director of the Wellcome Trust and member of the Government's Council for Science and Technology. The report was commissioned...

Well actually, organizations have never had a mind, but nonetheless, their lack of recognizing the obvious is embarrassing, or worse … life threatening.When an organization misses the obvious (e.g., when other relevant...

A study of the UK's biggest companies has found 31% of them breaking anti-spam laws by sending marketing emails without either prior consent or an existing customer relationship.CDMS, a data and marketing firm, examined...

IBM and seven leading U.S. universities announced several new open software research projects under a program designed in conformance with the Open Collaboration Research Principles, a set of guidelines announced previously to...